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.\" Copyright (C) 2006 Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>
.\"
.\" This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2,
.\" or (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
.\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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.\"
.\"You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
.\"with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
.\"51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
.TH update-notifier 1 "2007\-05\-05" "GNOME"
.SH NAME
update-notifier \- Notifies about package updates
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B update-notifier
.RI [ OPTION... ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Update Notifier
can be used to check for the availability of new packages for your Debian system.
When it detects new versions of the packages
installed on the system are available, it will add an icon on the
desktop notification area.
For
.B Update Notifier
to detect new available updates a task has to run periodically to
update the package database. You can use the
.B Software Properties
application (\fBsoftware-properties-gtk\fR if you run GNOME or
\fBsoftware-properties-kde\fR if you run KDE) to setup that task up.
Such as task is also available in Debian systems if the \fBcron-apt\fR
package is installed, a simpler task is available at
.B /usr/share/doc/update-notifier/examples/update-notifier.cron.daily
which has to be installed in
.B /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-\-debug\-hooks
Enable hooks debugging
.TP
.B \-\-display=DISPLAY
X display to use
.P
.B update-notifier
also accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.
.SH AUTHORS
.B update-notifier
was written by Michiel Sikkes <michiel@eyesopened.nl> and others.
.P
This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR "gtk-options" (7),
.BR "gnome-options" (7)
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